Irish
Etymology
From págánta (“pagan, heathen”, adjective) + -acht (abstract nominal suffix).
Noun
págántacht f (genitive singular págántachta)
- paganism, heathenism
Declension
Declension of págántacht (third declension, no plural)
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Mutation
Mutated forms of págántacht
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lenition
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eclipsis
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phágántacht
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bpágántacht
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Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
Further reading
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “págántacht”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “págántacht”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- “paganism”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2025
- de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “págánacht”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm